US EditionBondi Junction Inquest LIVE updates: Hero cop among witnesses to give evidence in first week
- An inquest began on May 4, 2025, into the April 13, 2024, knife attack at Westfield Bondi Junction, Sydney, that killed six people and injured ten.
- Joel Cauchi, a 40-year-old man diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teen, conducted the attack during a psychotic episode while disconnected from mental health care for nearly five years.
- Cauchi stabbed six individuals, including security guard Faraz Tahir, in under three minutes before police fatally shot him within six minutes of the beginning of the assault.
- Peggy Dwyer SC, serving as counsel to the inquest, described Cauchi as severely psychotic and focused on weapons and violence, noting that his phone searches included references to mass killings and indicated planning for the attack.
- The five-week inquest will examine police and ambulance responses, opportunities for prior intervention, and aims to provide answers to prevent similar future tragedies.
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Stabber had 'preoccupation with death' before rampage
The inquest into mass killings at Bondi Juntion follows the devastating attack’s first anniversary. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS) By Miklos Bolza Before he murdered six people in a busy metro shopping centre during a psychotic episode, a stabber was preoccupied with weapons, violence and mass killing, a coroner has heard. Joel Cauchi had fallen through the cracks of the mental health system when he armed himself with a knife and rampaged through Sydn…
Internet history reveals Bondi Junction killer was 'planning a strike', inquest told
The opening day of the inquest has been told there was evidence of "rudimentary planning" and in the years prior Joel Cauchi had purchased knives which were used on the day of the attack that killed six people.
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